Books

Released 2012: My African Letters

My African Letters is based on an email that I received from a lawyer, Amadi Omorose Azagba, from Benin in Africa on April 11, 2011. Azagba writes that he for some time has been trying to get hold of me since his client, Gabriel Ejlerskov, died a tragic death some years back. The lawyer must now find and pass on a part of the inheritage to an Ejlerskov relative. 

Covered in hopes and expectations about the Other, ideas of paradise and wealth crosses the seas many times as I in my emails insist on getting more details about the deceased Gabriel Ejlerskov. In this publication you will find the entire email correspondence, which evolves into a dream scenario. Referred to via footnotes in the emails, the last part of this book displays a catalogue of paintings inspired by the dialogue.

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The publication is designed by Woodpecker Projects, SE and published by Forlaget Siesta, DK
with support from the Danish Arts Council

Edition of 600 copies



Acquisition

ISBN: 978-87-92539-99-1







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Release 2011: An open door is closing

Part of the foreword by art critic and writer Lisbeth Bonde:

The paintings in the Ditte Ejlerskov’s hybrid manual, An Open Door is Closing, appear as film stills or photo documentations of scenes from a life lived, while the pictographs are guidelines that bind the narrative in chapters. Strangely enough, the book’s dry and pragmatic appearance works in favor of the books content which - like a docu-soap - explores the relationship between man and woman. Is it a manual that gives advice on tackling a complicated love affair, we wonder in our encounter with this atypical book. The paintings run indexically, since they seem to refer to a photographic source, that is, to a now which existed when it was immortalised on the light-sensitive paper and then painted. Therefore the book is also about representation – about how we construct our images of reality. “The photo imparts to the instant a posthumous shock” as Roland Barthes wrote in his renowned book of photography Camera Lucida - by which he means that it both celebrates and seals a moment (an act, an instant) that is already in the past...
... Ditte Ejlerskov unfolds therefore a modern tale in archetypical robes, but it is worth noting that the story is her excuse to explore the form and colors of painting. The tale is subject to the image in continuation of the Danish painter Asger Jorn’s credo: “In the beginning was the image”.


Edition: 700 copies (including 30 Special Editions)

ISBN: 978-91-633-6251-4

The publication is produced in collaboration with Elastic Gallery in Malmö, Sweden and would not have been possible without support from

The Swedish Arts Council, Sweden
Larm Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Crystal Contemporary, Stockholm, Sweden
Montana Fonden, Denmark
The Danish Embassy, Sweden
Harry Kuvert AB, Malmö, Sweden

Designed and Published 2011 by:
Woodpecker Projects, Malmö, SE

Acquisition

ISBN: 978-91-633-6251-4

If you are interested in this book or the special edition contact me or:

Elastic Gallery, Malmö. SE
Ystad Konstmuseum, SE
Larm Gallery, Cph, DK
Crystal Contemporary, Stockholm, SE
Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup, SE
Kopenhagen Shop, Cph, DK

The special edition (Edition: 30 copies)

Each special edition book consists of 1 lino print titled “Palm”






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Release 2009: Unbreak my heart, say you'll love me again

(Edition: 500 copies)

This publication is produced in collaboration with galleri Ping Pong in Malmö and was finalized in march 2009. It covers three branches of artistic practice – all linked under the same title Unbreak my heart, say you’ll love me again. It is a soft-cover book with 96 pages and a poster.

The first part presents the encyclopedia piece, a white sculptural installation. This piece literally illustrates the cultivation and the mind mapping of artistic practice with the countless dilemmas related to it. In this part the artist’s own encyclopedic system is unfolded with observations by art historian Natalia Gutman and curator Elena Tzotzi. The second part depicts an arrangement of eight paintings. The paintings are each measurements of formalistic methods as well as they are figuratively telling the story of the overall title of this b ook. The third part of the book describes the idea of the all-coherent master painting.

The special edition (Edition: 30 copies)


Each special edition book consists of 1 signed oil painting on paper plus 1 signed and numbered line etching made in collaboration with Atelje Larsen in Helsingborg, Sweden. The etching is produced in 3 different colors; Grey, Cadmium Red and Ultra Marine Blue.
Each painting on paper was originally part of the encyclopedia project and was collected in a group of 30 pieces to be bound in an encyclopedia book with the title Unintended but surprisingly functioning abstract paintings on paper. The papers worked as pallets or brush cleaners on the studio floor while I worked on larger canvases on the wall. Consequently they are unintended in their formal principles.

The poster below is part of the standard book. It illustrates the different working methods of the encyclopedia. The graphic maps are described in the book.

Acquisition

ISBN: 978-91-633-3929-5

If you are interested in this book or the special edition contact me or:

Elastic Gallery, Malmö. SE
Skisernas Museum, Lund, SE
Kopenhagen Shop, Cph, DK
Konst-ig, Stockholm, SE
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup, SE
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Little Paper Planes, San Francisco, US
Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago, US
The Diamonds Bookstore, Cph, DK
Larm Gallery, Cph, DK